Formatting time in WPS Spreadsheet

WPS Spreadsheet could be an alternative to Microsoft Office Excel. It includes 100's of built-in formulas, pivot tables, and more. Today, we will learn how to format the time. Before setting, we need to be aware of the correct way to record time.A complete-time duration consists of hours, minutes and seconds, and each value is separated by colons.For example: 12:25:25. Take this table as an example, select the cells A4-A14. Click the Number Format drop-down button in the Home tab, ....

Create a countdown calendar current time and date

WPS office software could be compatible with Microsoft Office, and these training contents help students or home workers finish their work efficiently. Today, we are going to introduce basic usages of three commonly used date functions. They are namely the TODAY function, NOW function, and DATEDIF function. We can use the date function to insert the current date and time quickly. Also, we can use this function to update it in real-time. We can also make a countdown calendar with it. · ....

Insert date and time in the header or footer

WPS Writer allows users to add various styles of header and footer, including text, pictures, and date and time. So how can we realize inserting date and time? A footer has been added to this document. So here we take the header as an example to show how to insert date and time. Get into the Header/Footer tab and click Date and Time to pop up the dialog. On the left-hand side of the dialog, we can choose from different formats to present the date and time. Check the Update automaticall....

How to use the Excel MID function

When using WPS Spreadsheets to process data, sometimes we need to catch part of the data from a series of numbers. We can use the MID formula to realize it, to catch up a certain length of characters from a series of numbers. In this example, there is a list of phone numbers. The MID function can extract the long series of numbers, keeping the last seven numbers when removing the first three characters. Select cell D2 and click the Insert Function to pop up the Search for a function d....

A quick way to calculate sum, average, count, max, and min

Here we have received a sheet on the Masks Sales in Single-Day Sheet from a supermarket. How can we quickly calculate the sum, average, maximum, and daily sales volume during the period from August 19th to 31st?We can use the AutoSum feature of the WPS Spreadsheet, rather than calculating all data one by one with a calculator, which would be a waste of time. Follow these step.1. Select the data area, click the AutoSum drop-down button in the Formulas tab.2. Find the Sum button and clic....

Refresh pivotTable and change data source

If we modified the data source after creating a PivotTable, how can we make the contents of the PivotTable change with the data source? Take this table as an example. We select cell F15 in Sheet1, and change Violin's Total sales to 800. Then we go back to Sheet2 only to find no change in the values of the PivotTable. At this time, we click the Option tab and click the Refresh button to refresh the PivotTable. If we are afraid of forgetting to refresh the data, click Options in the ....

How can we set header and footer

A formal form usually has additional information such as the company’s logo, time, and page number at the top or bottom. This specific area is called header and footer. Do you know how we can set it? Take this table as an example. Get into the Insert tab first, and then click Header/Footer. You can also click the Header and Footer button in the Print Preview tab to set the header and footer area.After the page setting dialog box pops up, we can now see that WPS has already built in som....

How to set header and footer in WPS Presentation

When using WPS Presentation, we sometimes add a header and/or a footer to make the slides look more professional. How can we realize it? In this example, get into the Insert tab, and click the Header and Footer button. Then, we will see the two tabs of Slide and the Notes and Handout in the Header/Footer dialog. · The Slide tabHere we can insert the date and time, footer, and page number in the footer, which are respectively positioned in the bottom-left, -middle, and -right areas of t....